佛弟子應誦持《楞嚴經》

　　Disciples of the Buddha Should Recite and Uphold the Shurangama Sutra

　　◎一九八叁年一月開示于金輪聖寺

　　A talk given in January, 1983 at Gold Wheel Monastery

　　《楞嚴經》這是佛教裏一部照妖鏡的經，所有天魔外道、魑魅魍魉，一見到《楞嚴經》都現原形了，它無所遁形，什麼地方它也跑不了。所以在過去，智者大師聽說有這一部經，就向印度遙拜，拜了十八年，以十八年這種懇切至誠的心，求這一部經到中國來。

　　The Shurangama Sutra is a Sutra that acts like a demon-spotting mirror in Buddhism. All the celestial demons, externalists, and the li, mei, and wang liang ghosts reveal their true appearance when they see the Shurangama Sutra. They have no way to hide and no place to flee to. And so in the past, when Great Master Zhi Zhe heard of the existence of this Sutra, he bowed in the direction of India for eighteen years. For eighteen years, he used this spirit of utmost sincerity to pray for this Sutra to be brought to China.

　　過去的大德高僧，所有這一些有智慧的高僧，沒有哪一個不贊歎《楞嚴經》的。所以《楞嚴經》存在，佛法就存在；《楞嚴經》如果毀滅了，佛法也就毀滅了。怎麼樣末法呢？末法就是《楞嚴經》先毀滅了。誰毀滅的呢？就是這一些個天魔外道。這些天魔外道一看見《楞嚴經》，就好像眼中的釘、肉中的刺一樣，坐也坐不住，站也站不穩，所以它必須要創出一種邪說，說是《楞嚴經》是假的。

　　Of all the greatly virtuous and eminent monks of the past, all the wise and lofty Sanghans, there was not a single one who did not praise the Shurangama Sutra. Therefore, as long as the Shurangama Sutra exists, the Buddhadharma exists. If the Shurangama Sutra is destroyed, then the Buddhadharma will also become extinct. How will the decline of the Dharma come about

　　 It will begin with the destruction of the Shurangama Sutra. Who will destroy it

　　 The celestial demons and externalists will. They see the Shurangama Sutra like a nail in their eyes and a thorn in their flesh. They can”t sit still, and they can”t stand steady; they are compelled to invent the deviant theory saying that the Shurangama Sutra is false.

　　我們做佛教徒應該認識真理，《楞嚴經》上所講的道理，每一個字都是真經真典，沒有一個字不是講真理的。所以我們現在研究這五十種陰魔，更應該明白《楞嚴經》這種重要性，其他這些邪魔鬼怪最怕的就是《楞嚴經》。

　　As Buddhist disciples, we should recognize true principle. Every word of the doctrines in the Shurangama Sutra is the absolute truth. There isn”t one word which does not express the truth. So now that we are studying the Fifty Skandha-demons, we should realize even more just how important the Shurangama Sutra is. The Shurangama Sutra is what the deviant demons, ghosts, and goblins fear most.

　　虛老活了一百二十歲，他一生，旁的什麼經典也沒注解過，只有注解這部《楞嚴經》。注解《楞嚴經》這個稿子，他是很注意地來保存，保存了幾十年，結果以後在雲門事變時，就丟了，這是虛老一生一個最大遺憾的事情。他主張我們身爲一個出家人，都應該把《楞嚴經》讀得能背得出來，由前邊背到後邊，由後邊背到前邊，順背倒背，順倒都能背得出來，這是他的主張。那麼我知道虛老一生之中，對《楞嚴經》是特別重視的。

　　The Venerable Master Hsu Yun lived to be a hundred and twenty years old, and during his whole life, he didn”t write a commentary for any Sutra other than the Shurangama Sutra. He took special care to preserve the manuscript of his commentary on the Shurangama Sutra. He preserved it for several decades, but it was later lost during the Yunmen incident. This was the Elder Hsu”s greatest regret in his life. He proposed that, as left-home people, we should study the Shurangama Sutra to the point that we can recite it by memory, from the beginning to the end, and from the end to the beginning, forwards and backwards. That was his proposal. I know that, throughout his whole life, the Elder Hsu regarded the Shurangama Sutra as being especially important.

　　有人也對虛老提過，說：「《楞嚴經》有人說是僞造的。」老和尚說這末法怎麼叫末法呢？就因爲有這一班人，弄得魚目混珠，是非分不清楚，教你這人都迷了，瞎人眼目，令人認不清楚佛法了。他在那兒把這個真的，他當假的；假的他又當真的了。你看這一些個人，又是這個人寫一部書，人也拿著看；那一個人寫一部書，他也拿著看，真正佛所說的經典，人都把它置諸高閣，放到那個書架子上，永遠也不看。所以這也就看出來衆生的業障是很重的，他若聽邪知邪見，就很相信的；你講正知正見的法，說了他也不信，說了他也不信。爲什麼呢？就是善根不夠，根基不夠的關系，所以對正法有一種懷疑的心，有一種狐疑不信的心。

　　When someone informed the Elder Hsu that there were people who said the Shurangama Sutra was false, he explained that the decline of the Dharma occurs just because these people try to pass fish eyes off as pearls, confusing people so that they cannot distinguish right from wrong. They make people blind so that they can no longer recognize the Buddhadharma. They …

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